Partial Blocks Done on the New York Beauty Variation Quilt

All 36 of the corners are complete, and 12 of the ray sections.  The Venice lace arrived from cheeptrims.com, so I laid it atop one of the arcs above the rays to see what it looks like.  I have 51.5 hours in this quilt so far.  It took 8 hours to finish ten ray sections.  Maybe I can complete the remaining 24 by Saturday night.  Maybe. 

Cutting, Cutting, Cutting for New York Beauty Variation

I finished cutting all the pieces for the center of the New York Beauty Variation quilt!  I'll cut the borders when I finish sewing the main part together.  There are 684 patches in the central section of the quilt, not a whole lot, in comparison with some other quilts I've made.  But because they were irregular, it took a while to cut them all out -- 14.5 hours, to be exact.  I put together three of the curved-block arches and quit for the night.  Last picture is what I plan to use for the backing.

Starting the New York Variation Quilt

I have two partial blocks put together for the New York Beauty Variation quilt... I’ll wait ’til the Venice lace arrives (just got a notice that it has been shipped) to finish putting the blocks together, in case I want to sew the lace into the seam. Now I’ve just done a bunch of calculations to see how many of each patch I need to cut from each piece of fabric, so I can do all the cutting at once. I have 28 one-yard pieces of cream-on-cream, 25 one-yard pieces of white-on-white, and four other one-yard pieces that don’t quite fit with the rest, which I might use in the borders. 

Here are the partial blocks. There’s a little more contrast between the cream and the white than it appears here, and there will be more when I quilt it, as I will use a dark cream thread in the cream areas, and a pale silver in the white areas. I will use two layers of batting (Hobbs 80/20 against the batting, and Quilters’ Dream Wool on top), so the quilting will show up well. 

Back to the cutting table!

New Project(s): Blocks Cut

The 50 blocks are all cut apart now, and I have 196 six-inch squares, plus four that were pieced.  I'll use them for smaller squares or triangles.

While I cut the blocks, Tiger snoozed, all squished into the smaller cat bed, even though I brought the bigger one upstairs for him.  And over there on my serger chair is Teensy, sawing logs.

Starting a New Project, with Old Blocks

These blocks were given to me by my late sister-in-law; they'd been put together by her mother.  There are 50 twelve-inch blocks.

Now to decide what to do with them!